Middle East

The last months of 2018 have been filled with news of members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) looking to gradually normalise their relations with a Bashar al-Assad led Syria. Although countries like Saudi Arabia and its former partner Qatar invested millions into efforts aimed at regime change in Damascus, now […]

The conflict in Syria has lasted longer than the Second World War and as such, much of Syria has been operating within the framework of a war mentality for a significant period of time. To contextualise this, a child who is a healthy seven year old boy or girl living […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that his nation’s armed force are prepared to launch an anti-terror operation in northern Syria in regions east of the River Euphrates as well as in the city of Manbij which lies just west of the Euphrates. This is significant as it demonstrates that […]

The following is an interview in which geopolitical expert Andrew Korybko offers his analysis of Saudi Arabia’s decision to offer new investments to India at a time when the US is leveraging its main south Asian partner against its partnership with Iran. The interview was originally published in the Farsi […]

The Turkey-US agreement on Manbij appears to have broken down Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made his strongest statement to-date regarding Ankara’s fury at the United States for failing to fufill its promises to cooperate with Turkish forces in clearing the northern Syrian city of Manbij of the YPG/PKK terror […]

Erdogan announces forthcoming military operations in north-eastern Syria Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that the armed forces of the country will commence a new anti-terror operation east of the River Euphrates in Syria. While such an operation has long been discussed and while Ankara has been very clear about […]

Since 2015, the manifold war in Yemen has raged while a subsequent humanitarian disaster described by the United Nations as “the worst in the world”, continues with no signs of abatement. All the while, the US political class under both the administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump have largely […]

The idea that Iran and Saudi Arabia would agree on anything seems anathema to current trends in geopolitics, but when it comes to oil production, Iran and its fellow members of the de-facto Saudi led OPEC have just secured an important accord that allows the majority of OPEC’s members to […]

Hours after Donald Trump made a wildly undiplomatic endorsement of the protesters in Paris and other major cities in France, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered a measured response to the issue while also reflecting on how Europe’s hypocritical behaviour led to this dangerous impasse for France and some of France’s […]

While the murder of Jamal Khashoggi on the 2nd of October has made and in many cases continues to make international headlines, it is clear that the issue matters most to Turkey. Because the Saudi masterminds of Khashoggi’s death choose their consulate in Istanbul as the site on which to carry out […]